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From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
2–6 Apr 1832
Source of text:
DAR 223
Summary:

CD’s enjoyment of the beauty of the tropics is worth all the misery of seasickness. His mail gave him great pleasure. For two weeks he will visit a large estate in the country, and on return live at Botofogo for some weeks, collecting and learning to know the tropics.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
John Maurice Herbert
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
15–17 Apr 1832
Source of text:
DAR 204: 113
Summary:

Writes news of Cambridge friends, professors, music, the Reform Bill, and cholera. Expresses belief that CD will take his place with Cuvier and Humboldt.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Charles Robert Darwin
To:
Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Darwin; Caroline Sarah (Caroline) Wedgwood
Date:
25–6 Apr [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 223: 11
Summary:

His trip to the interior was full of interest, but exhausting physically. Expects to stay at least a fortnight at Botofogo, because the Beagle returns to Bahia to correct a difference in the longitude measurements. Writes of his companions, of FitzRoy, and of his journal – which he has sent home.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Emily Catherine (Catherine) Darwin; Emily Catherine (Catherine) Langton
To:
Charles Robert Darwin
Date:
26[–7] Apr [1832]
Source of text:
DAR 204: 84
Summary:

Writes chiefly of family affairs: Erasmus’ visit, further delay in Fanny Owen’s marriage, Sarah [Owen] Williams’ illness, Arthur Owen’s sad departure for India; cholera.

Contributor:
Darwin Correspondence Project
From:
Margaret Brodie Herschel
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
2 Apr 1832
Source of text:
MSH 4 / 321, Dep. c. 370, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Henry Kater
To:
William Somerville
Date:
23 Apr 1832
Source of text:
MSK 1 / 38, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Mary Frances Kater
To:
Mary Somerville
Date:
12 Apr 1832
Source of text:
MSK 1 / 41, Dep. c. 371, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
Adam Sedgwick
To:
William Somerville
Date:
?? Apr 1832
Source of text:
MSS 4 / 51, Dep. c. 372, Bod, MS
Summary:

No summary available.

Contributor:
Brigitte Stenhouse
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[12 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.411
Summary:

JG is revising his diary.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
James Grahame
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[28 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 8.412
Summary:

Encourages JH to undertake a proposed trip to the Southern Hemisphere [letter completed 1832-5-1].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Richard Potter
Date:
[22 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 25.3.6
Summary:

Responds to RP's concerns about the nature of light and the interpretation of some interference experiments. JH believes that the undulatory theory of light is the best supported by the experiments at this time.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Thomas Hodgkin
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[13 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 9.407
Summary:

Has received the chronometer and will return it to Lister, together with his remarks on apertures. Charles May has found another individual suffering from color blindness. A friend has successfully made a reflecting microscope.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Dionysius Lardner
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[5 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 11.122
Summary:

Wonders how JH's projected volume on Astronomy is progressing. Would also like a short biography of Francis Bacon.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
[D. François J. Arago]
Date:
[26 April 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0035; Reel 1054
Summary:

Sends letter, inspired by J. von Liebig's paper on separation of metallic oxides, to Annales de Chimie et de Physique. Fears JH's scientist friends may fall victim to the 'terrible malady...now raging' [in Paris].

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Editors of the Annales de chimie et de physique
Date:
[26] April 1832
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0036; Reel 1054
Summary:

JH's notes on separation of iron oxide and a new procedure for complete purification of uranium.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Rummohun [?] Roy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[3 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.504
Summary:

Must decline invitation to dinner due to poor health.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[20 April 1832]
Source of text:
unknown
Summary:

Reminds JH to send his catalog of double stars.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Sir John Herschel
To:
Caroline Lucretia Herschel
Date:
[17 April 1832]
Source of text:
TxU:H/L-0577.2.a; Reel 1058
Summary:

Wilhelm Struve's observations support JH's findings concerning the rapid revolution of Eta Coronae. In acknowledgement of the discovery that double stars are a 'revolving binary system,' JH changed the inscription on William Herschel's monument.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
Richard Potter
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[10 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 14.181
Summary:

Discusses study of light, JH's theories on the subject, and his own photometer observations. Asks JH for further explanations of his theory.

Contributor:
John Herschel Project
From:
George Biddell Airy
To:
Sir John Herschel
Date:
[27 April 1832]
Source of text:
RS:HS 1.51
Summary:

Will he be visiting Cambridge this Spring?

Contributor:
John Herschel Project